GENEVIEVE CHUA’S

16 JUNE - 14 JULY 2019 Hard to say, Soft to touch is an exhibition by Genevieve Chua. The show features an arrangement of designed pride flags describing non-binary identities. Genevieve Chua (Born 1984, )

Genevieve Chua is a painter who works primarily through abstraction. Chua employs a method of working that unfurls and reveals the painter's process through diagram, palimpsest, syntax, and the glitch. While notions of nature and wilderness persist across several works, the form taken by her exhibitions – image, text or object – is disrupted through painting.

Selected solo exhibitions include Vestigials and Halves (Seoul, 2017); Rehearsals for the Wilful (Manila, 2016); Moths (Hong Kong, 2015); Parabola (Singapore, 2014); Cicadas Cicadas (Los Angeles, 2014); Adinandra Belukar ( 2011). She was conferred the Young Artist Award (2012) by the National Arts Council, Singapore.

The artist has also participated in shows such as Choruses (Hong Kong, 2017); BMW Young Asian Artist Series II (Singapore, 2011); Art Project Ideas at Hiroshima MOCA (Japan, 2011); Cross-scape at the Kumho Museum of Art (South Korea, Seoul, 2011); Shadow in the Dark (Hong Kong, 2011) and CUT 2009: Figure, New Photography from Southeast Asia (Kuala Lumpur; Singapore 2009). Camouflage, Screen and so on and so forth

H142 x W119cm Dye Sublimation on Cotton 2019 Gauze over Blues

H139 x W91cm Dye Sublimation on Cotton 2019 Blue Leaning Upon Others

H104 x W96cm Dye Sublimation on Cotton 2019 Hard to say, Soft to Touch

H130 x W100cm Dye Sublimation on Cotton 2019 Yellow and Purple Screens in Succession

H89 x W67cm Dye Sublimation on Cotton 2019 Two Blue Diagonals, Again and Again

H138 x W84cm Dye Sublimation on Cotton 2019 Within the Oval

H63 x W73cm Dye Sublimation on Cotton 2019 Swivel #2, Discretion

H57.5 x W31 x D37.5 cm Acrylic and Screenprint with Enamel on Shaped Canvas; Stainless Steel Bracket 2014 Swivel #10

H38 x W34 x L31 cm Acrylic and Screenprint with Enamel on Shaped Canvas; Stainless Steel Bracket 2015 Trending

H40 x W42cm Acrylic on Linen, Shaped Canvas 2019 Edge Control #18, Oblivious Panel

H60 x W42 cm Acrylic on Linen 2017 Edge Control #26, More False than True

H60 x W42 cm Acrylic on Linen, Shaped Canvas 2018 EDUCATION 2016-2018 Royal College of Art, UK (MA Painting) 2001-2004 Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore (Dip Painting)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS RESIDENCIES 2019 Closed during Opening Hours, Earl Lu Gallery ICA, Singapore 2012 AIRx Residency, Royal College of Art, London 2017 Vestigials and Halves, 7 ½ , Seoul 2011 GCC Creative Residency Programme, Gyeonggi Creation Centre, 2016 Rehearsals for the Wilful, Silverlens Galleries, Manila Gyeonggi-do, Korea 2015 Moths, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong 2011 The Art Incubator, National Art Council Singapore, CCC Shizouka, Japan 2014 Parabola, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Singapore 2010 BMW Young Asian Artist Series, Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore 2014 Cicadas Cicadas, Gusford Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2010 Late Fall Residency, The Banff Centre, Calgary, Canada 2012 Birthing Ground Not a Sound, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore 2011 Another Place, CCC Shizuoka, Japan 2009 Full Moon & Foxes, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore AWARDS/ MENTIONS 2007 As Brutal As, La Libreria, Singapore 2018 “1 of 10 stars for 2018, Future Greats”, ArtReview Asia 2017 NAC Postgraduate Scholarship SELECTED WRITINGS FOR DOWNLOAD 2014 PULSE Miami, “Top Nine Trending Artists Under 40” 2012 Young Artist Award, National Arts Council Singapore Exhibition Essay: Rehearsals for the Wilful, by Sidd Perez, 2016 2003/04 NAC Scholarship Structures, Narratives and Mediations: A Conversation between Genevieve Chua and Ho Rui An, 2013 Landscapes Scarred and Renewed, Art Asia Pacific, by Ysabelle Cheung, 2018 A Broad Spectrum of Resemblances (Pg 5-6), LEAP, 2016 Exhibition Essay: Rehearsals for the Wilful, by Sidd Perez, 2016 Structures, Narratives and Mediations: A Conversation between Genevieve Chua and Ho Rui An, 2013 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 Choruses 副歌, Edouard Malingue, Hong Kong 2011 The Art Incubator, Praxis Space, Singapore 2017 Shared Coordinates, The Arts House, Singapore 2011 Shadow in the Dark, EXIT Gallery, Central, Hong Kong 2017 Translacion, Silverlens, Manila 2011 Art Project Ideas, Hiroshima MOCA, Japan 2011 Abject Systems, 2015 My Sisters and Other Ghosts, The Cross Arts Projects, Sydney Studio Bibliotheque, Singapore 2015 I went to the forest to live deliberately, Art Informal, Manila 2011 Cross-scape, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2014 Afterimage, 8Q SAM, Singapore 2011 Cross-scape, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju, Korea 2014 Unearth/ed, , Singapore 2011 Cross-scape, Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, Korea 2013 Side-Glance, ICA, Singapore 2011 Imagine Malaysia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore 2013 Anthropos, Numthong Gallery, Bangkok, 2011 House of Incest, Post Museum, Singapore 2013 Encountering the Unknown, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan 2011 Selamatan Digital, Langgeng Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2013 Disappearing Moon, Asia House Gallery, London 2011 Singapore Biennale, Old Kallang Airport, Singapore 2013 Disappearing Moon, ICA, Singapore 2010 Floating Worlds, ChanHampe Galleries, Singapore 2012 Encounter, Experience, Environment, , 2010 Together in Electric Dreams, Giveart, Singapore Singapore 2010 Singapore Survey 2010: Beyond LKY, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore 2012 Marcel Duchamp in South-east Asia, Equator Art Projects, 2010 No Conical Hats - Southeast Asian works on paper, Giveart, Singapore SIngapore 2010 Cabinet of Curiosities, HT Contemporary Space, Singapore 2012 Microcosmos, Goodman Arts Centre Gallery, Singapore 2010 Next Wave Time Lapse, Big Screen at Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia 2012 DiverseCities, 8Q, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore 2009 Lost in the City: Full Moon & Foxes, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore 2012 Poskad Pameran, Viridian Art House, Galerie Utama, Singapore 2009 Works on Paper: History Lessons, VWFA, KL 2012 New Strange Faces, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore 2009 CUT 09 Figure: New Photography from Southeast Asia, VWFA, KL 2012 In the Arms of the Void, Pink Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 2009 Drawing Out Conversations, Studio Bibliotheque, Hong Kong 2012 Future Proof, 8Q Singapore Art Museum, Singapore 2008 Drawing Out Conversations, Fost Gallery, Singapore 2011 BMW Young Asian Artist Series, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore GALLERY INFO

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